Although I grew up with both a computer and nintendo I have never really taken to gaming and now would still\u00a0rather learn\u00a0through\u00a0reading or interacting socially. For myself as a learning I find these more beneficial and associate gaming with leisure and it does not engage me as a learner as much as\u00a0I get the sense it\u00a0has some of you after reading all the previous posts.<\/p>\n
However, there was on computer game I can vividly recall that I did love as a child and I believe had a significant impact on who I am today (so I guess I shouldn’t count out gaming all that much considering it had such a great affect on me).\u00a0 As a child I was always fascinated by foreign countries, different geographical and cultural landscapes and travel. When I was around 8 or 9 I got the computer game “Where In the World Is Carmen San Diego?” <\/a>I was glued to this game.\u00a0In this game there is a woman who is a world-famous thief and you are\u00a0international detective and\u00a0must use clues to follow her to different countries of the world\u00a0and arrest her various partners in crime.\u00a0Along with the game came a book that had a map and listed countries and all sorts of information about each country.\u00a0I learned all about different countries, their currency, where they were on a map, the language of the country. I truly believe this spawned my love and curiousities throughout my youth for travel and culture. Now the game has become a TV show and there is an interactive online version I found when I was looking it up.<\/p>\n This game is the only one that I can say really had a significant impact on my learning as a child, at least that I am conciously aware of.\u00a0 Another I can remember using but not the name game we used in school with these keyboard-like stand-alone machines, but if I remember correctly I didn’t enjoy it and did it because I had to.<\/p>\n Here is\u00a0the version I had on my computer as a child.<\/p>\n